Tribe <y. The Theater of Tlants. Cha r ,24. 101& 
10. lycium Indicant creditum Alpha. i*. Agiahalid Egypt ace Lytio ajfinu. 
The fuppofed Indian Bo* thorne, The Egyptian Treehke unto Lycium. 
7. Lycium Crcticttmfriiwtm'B'Ui The firft Box thorne of Candy. 
This C(Indian thorne groweth to be foure or five cubits high cove-ed with a rough or k al bed barke, of a gray- 
ifh colour, ftored with fharpe thornes, three alwayc;, growing Together at a joynr, where the leaves alio come 
forth ihrec or four*, together which are fmall iomewnac reare unto Box leaves, and Icfler then thole 
of the Barbary bufh, lightly fnipped or dented about the edges: the flowers are yellow comming forth at the 
Joynts with the leaves which turne into fmall long berries not fully r und, therein tome what like unto a Barbary 
butblackewhenitisripe, eachofthemftandinglinglyby itfclfe upon a fmall (ooteftalke, of ataftebccweenc 
fweete and Tower : the wood hereof is yellow and the roote much more gwing an excellent yellow dye ; divers 
have accounted it a kinde of mountaine Barbary for the refcmblance thereunto more then unto Lyc um\ but it 
differech from the Barbary in that the leaves thereof are greater then of this, and the Barbarv fa h the berries 
growing many together m a long clufter, and this but fingly one at a place as h before laid, and from the 
true Ljcium it differed! in the fiuit not being round like Pepper, and is not bitter as the berries of mod fort of 
Lycium are. 
8. Lycium Creticum alterum. The other Box thorne of Candy, 
This other Canditw bulb rifeth up not above two or three cubits high chicke fet with branches and thornes,and 
fmall leaves upon them, the berries are round, as lmall as Pepper and blacke when they are ripe,whereof is made 
an excellent yellow colour. 
9. lycium legitimum Rawsvolfij. The true Box thorne of Syria. 
the.true Box thorne as Rauwoifius fetterh it forth in the fourth Bookeof his journal), or Itinerary is a fmall 
fhrubbe having many (boats from the rootes,fet full of thornes and fmall leaves fomcwhat like unto Sloe leaves 
or betweene them and B ox. 
19. Lycium Indicant creditum AIpino. The fuppofed Jnd.an Box thorne. 
This Box thorne fuppofed to be the right Lycium lndicum by Pro/per Alpinw in his Booke of Egyptian plants, 
fhooteth from the rootes divers upright wooddy ftemmes three or foure cubits high,fetthicRe with j tynts.a 1 - eve¬ 
ry one whereof come forth both long and fharpe thornes,and fourt or five fmall long Whitifh greene leaves »on- 
ger, narrower and whiter then thofe of the Olive tree : at the j'oynts likewife with the leaves (land two or three 
fmall whitifh flowers, very like unto thofe of theOrientall Jacinth, which turne into (mail and blacke berrie3 
very like unto Wallwort berries of an aflringent and bitter tafte. 
11 . Lycium lndicum put at um Gar fit. Gar fiat fuppofed Indian Box thorne, 
Garcias ab Orta in his firft booke and tenth Chapter of his hiftory of Druggcs fhewcrh that the Indians, 
Pcrjiansznd other nations of Afia major, ufc acertaine juice which they call Cate or Cato t mixed with Bette and 
Aftreca % as an ufuall familiar junket continually to chew in their mouths, which he chinketh to be Lycium t having 
